Burglary peaks in August — and the most common break-in happens on a weekday morning, through the front door, while everyone’s at work. The entry-point data, what convicted burglars say actually deters them, and a 10-minute burglar’s-eye audit of your camera coverage.
Resolution isn’t the problem — the lens is. What focal length and field of view actually determine, the pixels-per-foot math behind usable footage, and how to pair wide context cameras with one chokepoint camera that captures faces and plates.
If your camera is pinging you at 3am every night this July, it’s not a ghost – it’s the IR/bug/spider/cobweb chain. Here’s the five-minute monthly routine that stops it, plus the four “don’t do this” cleaning mistakes that quietly ruin a $250 camera.
The math behind sizing your NVR hard drive. Real numbers for 4K cameras, motion vs continuous recording, and how long you actually need to keep footage.
